Joel Hammer - Get Mozilla 1.2.1

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:41:27 PDT 2004


On 12/10/02 18:58, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Ok, I found David Bandel's StepbyStep for upgrading glibc. Is this still
> current?

Yup.  I used it last month.

> The current glibc is 2.3. Is that safe to put onto a caldera 2.4 box?

The most recent stable release i think is 2.2.5.  2.3 i think is still a 
beta release.

> David's StepByStep didn't say what do do if you trashed your system. I can

Backup /lib before you start.  If it all goes to hell, make sure you 
have something like Knoppix or the Linuxcare BBC ready so you can 
restore /lib.

> dual boot into another distro of linux if necessary, so I don't have to
> worry about a boot disk and all. But, what files would have to be restored
> and what file removed if the installation failed?

or that plan will work too.  Just /lib needs to be restored.

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